PHOTOS BY PAUL JOYNSONfHICKS f SERENGETISAFARI.TV
More than two million animals. An arduous, year-long 500km journey over open plains, through woodlands and across rivers. In an area covering 40,000 sq km. Battling severe drought and heavy rains along the way. Living in constant fear of predators. In an endless quest for food and water. All orchestrated by the weather. Welcome to the Great Migration.
In this wildlife carnival they call the ‘greatest show on Earth’, some 1.5 million wildebeest, along with 500,000 Thomson’s gazelle, 200,000 plains zebra and a whole host of other grazers, spend their lives in an almost-constantly moving procession — a treadmill they can never get off, unless forcibly removed by the likes of lion, cheetah, hordes of famished crocodile and whatever Mother Nature throws at them, as well as some unwanted intrusion from humankind.